Football tips: Edinburgh City vs Elgin City - predictions and betting guide

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Competition: Scotland League Two
Date: Sat 27.April
Match begins: 14:00 (UTC)
Venue: Ainslie Park Stadium (2504 seats)

A home win is expected from this fixture if the league table is anything to judge by. The home fans are optimistic that the difference between 3rd and 8th place in the table will show on the pitch.

Edinburgh City and Elgin City should both be in good shape for this meeting, as there's been enough days for both of them to train and rest since their last matches.

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Edinburgh City form and stats

Edinburgh City are steadily winning games and points here at Ainslie Park Stadium. 11 wins, 2 draws and 4 defeats is the summary from 17 games. With three straight defeats the pressure is piling up on Edinburgh City to get some points in this home game.

The fans are hoping that Edinburgh City will strike back in this match, putting things right after the 2-3 away loss in the League Two game against Albion Rovers. Preceding that match was a defeat to Clyde (1-2).

A decent goal production from Edinburgh City in their home games so far, with 30 goals from 17 matches. Edinburgh City are not conceding a lot of goals here at Ainslie Park Stadium, averaging less than one per game. The total is 11 from 17 matches.

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Elgin City form and stats

The visitors are W6-D1-L10 on the road this term. Elgin City are generally in trouble as the list of consecutive losses is growing into an ugly monster. Regardless of home/away, the visitors have now lost seven in a row. It's been 6 days since they avoided defeat. (The Clyde game.) It's all red in the travel logs of Elgin City, having lost five matches in a row as the visiting team.

This game can not go any worse than the last one, a League Two home defeat versus Peterhead with 1-2 on the scoreboard. It was a defeat before that one as the away game against Cowdenbeath wasn't a success with a 1-2 loss.

Elgin City have scored 24 goals on their travels this season, 17 away games. Elgin City have conceded 31 goals in these games.

Head 2 Head

The teams have played each other before this season, with the result Elgin City - Edinburgh City 3-3 entered in the official records. Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: 3 - 3 - 4 (Edinburgh City wins - draws - Elgin City wins).

Top Goalscorers

B. Henderson
29 goals
D. McHardy
7 goals
B. Cameron
7 goals

Edinburgh City missing players

Elgin City missing players

Edinburgh City Elgin City
Total Home Statistic Away Total
34 17 Played 17 34
57 30 Scored 24 49
30 11 Conceded 31 66
94% 94% Over 0.5 100% 100%
71% 71% Over 1.5 88% 85%
47% 47% Over 2.5 71% 74%
29% 24% Over 3.5 29% 38%
12% 6% Over 4.5 24% 26%
41% 41% Both teams to score 47% 56%
47% 47% Clean Sheet 29% 18%
18% 18% Failed To Score 24% 26%
 
5.1 5 Corners For (avg) 3.8 4.3
3 3.1 Corners Against (avg) 5.2 5
1.7 1.7 Yellow Cards (avg) 1.7 1.5
1 1 Red Cards (total) 3 5
Key stats this season:
  • Elgin City hasn't played a single 0-0 game.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A D P
1 Peterhead 34 23 6 5 62 28 17 12 3 2 26 11 17 11 3 3 36 17 34 75
2 Clyde 34 22 5 7 59 33 17 11 3 3 32 18 17 11 2 4 27 15 26 71
3 Edinburgh City 34 20 5 9 57 30 17 11 2 4 30 11 17 9 3 5 27 19 27 65
4 Annan Athletic 34 18 6 10 65 37 17 9 4 4 39 19 17 9 2 6 26 18 28 60
5 Stirling Albion 34 13 6 15 43 44 17 8 1 8 19 18 17 5 5 7 24 26 -1 45
6 Queen's Park 34 11 10 13 44 42 17 7 6 4 24 19 17 4 4 9 20 23 2 43
7 Cowdenbeath 34 11 7 16 42 42 17 7 3 7 26 23 17 4 4 9 16 19 0 40
8 Elgin City 34 12 3 19 49 66 17 6 2 9 25 35 17 6 1 10 24 31 -17 39
9 Albion Rovers 34 6 6 22 29 69 17 3 3 11 14 38 17 3 3 11 15 31 -40 24
10 Berwick Rangers 34 5 4 25 27 86 17 3 2 12 13 37 17 2 2 13 14 49 -59 19

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